Foose on Design: Tweaking The Look Of An Iconic 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda
Nov 25, 2019Brian Lohnes17
The “Foose on Design” series that Hagerty is producing is brilliant. Why? Because we get to see this guy talk about the stuff that he’s best at. We get to see him sketch, we get to...
Gripper: Meet The Holden Monaro That Just Took The First Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge In Australia!
Nov 24, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
If there is an individual whose calendar I did not envy, it was Jimi Day’s. The dude has been running strong for a while now, with his starting point being the SEMA show. From there he worked...
Hilarity: Once Upon A Time in Monterey – The Car Bros Actually Enter Monterey Car Week Events – This Rules
Nov 22, 2019Brian Lohnes1
We have long loved the Car Bros YouTube channel around here. These guys come up with weird ideas and concepts, riff on the more annoying parts of automotive culture, and love to do stuff that gets...
Redline Rebuild! Watch These Guys Perform The Rebuild Of An Iconic VW Flat Four
Nov 22, 2019Brian Lohnes5
Hagerty has really been killing it with their series of time lapse engine rebuild videos. They have done a bunch of classic engines so far but this time they are doing something a little different...
Buy It: The 1965 Koch Special Is An Incredible Window Into The Era Of Homebuilt American Sports Race Cars
Nov 22, 2019Brian Lohnes2
When most people bemoan the loss of the “good ol’ days” of racing they are talking about drag racing and how much stuff has changed over the years in terms of technology, rules, and...
Random Car Review: The Chrysler Kit Car Program – The Original Saturday Night Special
Nov 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart5
It is strange to picture just how incompetent management inside of Chrysler actually was during the 1970s. Lynn Townsend, who had been a strong benefit to Chrysler after the disastrous 1957 model...
Million Dollar Baby: This Ferrari 250 GTE/GTO Reconstruction Is An Interesting Piece Of History
Nov 20, 2019Brian Lohnes5
The Ferrari 250 GTO is the most valuable car in the world. The few that have been sold at auction bring tens of millions of dollars and they escalate in value each time one of the rare machines is...
Bedlam: The Insane Story Of The Bog At The 1974 US Grand Prix
Nov 19, 2019Brian Lohnes10
(Lead photo credit: Fox Sports) – Emerson Fittipaldi finished fourth at the 1974 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen International Raceway. By doing so he managed to collect a Formula One...
Climbkhana 2: Challenging The Seven-Mile, 99-turn Tianmen Winding Mountain Road In China
Nov 19, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Translated from the native tongue, Tiāmén means “Heaven’s Gate”. A mountain with a natural arch over 430 feet tall, Tianmen Mountain is a spectacular geographical wonder of...
Morning Symphony: 1984 Porsche 930 At Imola – Whale-Tail Ride Along!
Nov 19, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: 1984 Porsche 930 At Imola – Whale-Tail Ride Along!
Whale-tail. Widowmaker. A car whose “Turbo” badge was more than a quick cheap laugh. The Porsche 930, for all of the posters, all of the cheesy late 1980s pictures of it parked next to a...
Dead: Americas Rallycross Championship, After Just Two Seasons
Nov 17, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Dead: Americas Rallycross Championship, After Just Two Seasons
“After consultation with a wide group of stakeholders and interested parties, IMG has taken the difficult decision to not extend the Americas Rallycross Championship beyond the 2019...
The Dirty Cougar: Waking Up A Sleeping Cat For Another Season
Nov 17, 2019Bryan McTaggart7
Surprised to see this beauty again? Trust me, you aren’t the only one. The 1987 Mercury Cougar LS that we recovered from an Indiana backyard after a ten-year slumber, coaxed back into life, and...
Cheap Race Car Equals Happiness: Prepping A Monza For Legal Racing!
Nov 17, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Cheap Race Car Equals Happiness: Prepping A Monza For Legal Racing!
The Chevy Monza that occupies some area of land near Derek’s property is…well…roached. It’s somewhere between a four-cylinder machine you’d find at the local race track...
Optima’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Invades Las Vegas Motor Speedway And We’ve Got The Photos!
Nov 17, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Optima’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Invades Las Vegas Motor Speedway And We’ve Got The Photos!
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Optima’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Las Vegas is the perfect bookend to 10 days of racing and hot rods and performance. Starting with NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag...










